A suspected thief returned to the scene of his crime five days later — and was promptly nabbed by his victim.

The victim told cops that he had parked his 1999 Mercedes on Flatbush Avenue near Grand Army Plaza in Prospect Heights at about 9 a.m. Nov. 18 and when he returned, found the driver’s-side window shattered and some keys and other property missing.

Days later, he was behind the wheel of his car, parked at the same spot, when a man identified by cops as Edward Pride approached the vehicle, pulled out the set of keys and popped the trunk, police said.

The owner jumped out and grabbed Pride, 47, and held him until police arrived, sources said.

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Two men were wounded when a thug opened fire at a housing project in Bensonhurst.

The shots rang out shortly before midnight Saturday on 86th Street near Avenue V at the Marlboro Houses.

Each victim was hit once in the leg. The gunman fled

Manhattan

Police have identified the young woman who leaped to her death from the roof of a luxury hi-rise in Hells Kitchen over the weekend.

Anniken Pedersen, 20, jumped from her 36-story building on West 37th Street near 10th Avenue at 9 a.m. Saturday, police said.

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Two crooks tried to run but couldn’t hide after cops caught them tooling around Morningside Heights in a stolen car, authorities said.

Police stopped the 1995 Lincoln Town Car at West 116th Street and Riverside Drive at about 2:30 a.m. yesterday, but when the driver pulled to the side of the road, the four people inside jumped out of the car and ran, cops said.

Nearly two dozen people — loaded with a little too much holiday cheer — celebrated Thanksgiving behind bars after being busted for drunken driving in the city Thursday, authorities said.

Four motorists were nailed in Manhattan, including Daniel Hennessey, 23, who was arrested after cops pulled him over on Eighth Avenue near 34th Street in Hell’s Kitchen at about 3:30 a.m., police said.

Nine other people were arrested in Queens, six in Brooklyn and two more in The Bronx, including off-duty Police Officer Anthony Rodriguez, 27. He had been found passed out behind the wheel of his car, which was parked facing the wrong direction on East 183rd Street in Fordham about 3 a.m., police said.

Queens

A crooked cabby was busted after he used a passenger’s credit card to buy more than $700 worth of cigarettes at a Bayside gas station, authorities said.

A 29-year-old woman visiting from Denver told cops that she had mistakenly left two of her credit cards in a cab on 41st Avenue near Bell Boulevard at about midnight Oct. 17.

When she called to cancel the cards, she learned they had been used to buy $704 worth of cigarettes from a gas station on Bell Boulevard near Northern Boulevard over a 12-hour period, beginning shortly after she excited the cab, according to court papers.

Cops tracked down the cabby, Richard Johnson, 43, after finding he had signed his own name to the credit-card receipts, the court papers said.

Johnson was arrested Nov. 17 and charged with grand larceny and identity theft, said a spokeswoman for Queens DA Richard Brown.

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One man was stabbed to death and another seriously wounded during a drunken brawl in Corona.

The two men had been drinking in a bar at 98th Street and 37th Avenue at about 5 a.m. when they started arguing and then took their fight to the street, police said.

The intoxicated men both pulled out knives. One wound up stabbed in the chest and the other knifed in the chest and stomach.

Both men were taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where one of them died from his chest wound.